I updated my Watch last night, and today, messages come through only as numbers where they were once names. Is anyone else having this problem? If so, how did you fix it?
Problem has been resolved by unpairing Watch (using the app on the iPhone) and pairing again from back up.
Problem has been resolved by unpairing Watch (using the app on the iPhone) and pairing again from back up.
Hi
The following steps may help, having resolved the same issue for other users:
On your iPhone, in the Contacts app, check that there is a single contact card for each of your contacts and that each card contains that contact's full name and phone number, along with their email address.
If you have not yet done so, enable iCloud Contacts:
If you have contacts from multiple sources and multiple entries for the same person have not been linked automatically (such that they are shown as a unified contact, with "Unified Info"), then manually link those contacts by following the instructions here:
Having made any changes in the Contacts app, on your iPhone, in the Watch app, go to: My Watch > General > Reset > tap again on Reset Sync Data.
If the issue persists, it may then help to restart both your iPhone and your Apple Watch again, turning both off together, then restarting your iPhone first:
Since there were no duplicate contacts & iCloud Contacts was already enabled, I powered down the Watch & did a reset restart (home & power button pressed until apple appears) of the iPhone. Same result. I'm assuming since this was working fine before the update to watchOS 4.0, I should be looking for watchOS 4.0.1 . . .
watch messages not displaying names
